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Jack Baker - Posted - 07/25/2026: 06:30:19
Here's a fun tune most of us know. Woody Guthrie brought it to prominence and Jan Sundqvist has lent his usual excellent touch this arrangement...Jack
Hobos Lullaby
Edited by - Jack Baker on 07/25/2026 08:15:27
Tim Jumper - Posted - 07/25/2026: 16:43:04
Beautiful song by Gobel Reeves. I've hear it with other lyrics, including "Tinker's Lullaby" by the late, great Irish traveler musician Pecker Dunne, whom I had the pleasure of meeting and making music with at Haughey's Pub in Lisdoonvarna back in September of 1970. Many are the memories!
Thanks, Jack.
janolov - Posted - 07/26/2026: 08:51:07
I learned it from Pete Seeger on one of his American Favorite Ballads LP's, and Pete Seeger learned it from Woodie. Somewhere I read that the last time Pete went to visit Woodie at the hospital they sang Hobo's Lullaby together with Arlo. A few weeks later Woodie was gone.
Hobo's Lullaby derives from a Civil War song "Just Before The Battle, Mother", composed by George F. Root around 1863: sheetmusicsinger.com/wp-conten...-1864.pdf.
Tim Jumper - Posted - 07/26/2026: 16:49:19
Pecker was his nickname -- had something to do with a job and the guy he worked for.
I seem to recall it was sometimes spelled "Pekar," or was just a, possibly deliberate, mispronunciation of "packer."
His best-known song is "Sullivan's John."
Pecker was a powerful man for the music altogether!
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